> As you can see from my previous mailing list post, I do indeed have a
> pre-386 system with a CDROM. The above snip leads me to belive that the
> cdextensions file (though it runs on my XT) hasn't been debugged for
> that platform, and may not even be properly compiled (e.g. 386
> optimizations)?
I had some trouble getting the drive to work on my XT, though when i put
the controller and drive on another machine, it seemed to work ok. In
the readme.txt file from the beta9sr1 ISO file I found this:
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- SNIP -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
Platform:what to download:
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I hit up google and actually found a driver specific to this 8 bit scsi
card I've got on Adaptec's website. For the sake of the list, I will
post a link to the page as well as the scsi driver and some notes:
"Adding a CDROM to an XT": http://www.seasip.info/AmstradXT/cdrom.html
Adaptec PowerSCS
> boot floppy image and wrote it to disk. It does boot and read the hard
> drive ok, but I have yet to figure out how to make the SCSI CD-ROM work.
> Is there a generic driver for SCSI cd-rom?
Try doing a search for ASPICD.SYS
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